let's bring in larry lindsey currently president and ceo of the lindsey group. guy adami is still with me larry, welcome to you. >> great to be here. thanks for having me >> you said you didn't think the fed should raise rates in december they went ahead and did it anyway now a lot of commentary where they seem to be saying we're going to be flexible about the balance sheet. we'll make sure we don't go too far, too fast. what do you think is the right thing for them to do here? >> well, the fed's mandate is inflation and unemployment i.e., things get too weak and they should probably be cutting rates and there what they have to focus on is the unemploymenteraunemploy menment rate they have raise rates when it's a threat they're not supposed to raise rates just because the economy is growing too fast and they're not supposed to raise rates because too many people are working. they're supposed to raise rates if inflation is going up and inflation is below their 2% target, and it is falling. and any technician will tell you if you break support and you are still dro

nasser were quote unquote enjoying the spotlight larry nasser was sentenced to more than three hundred years for sexually abusing young gymnasts. lindsey vonn is set to return to the world cup circuit after an injury delayed her long goodbye to skiing before retirement been injured her knee before her scheduled first race of the season back in november but is due to start at corteen on saturday the american had announced that this would be her final year although she has since decided to extend that by one race into next season. unfortunately just body telling me it's not. it's not for lack of motivation or. lack of desire or lack of will. it's a lack of cartilage to be quite honest. you know i just can't move my body can continue. to do what i love well that's it for me here in sport but we'll have much more for you later and that's also it for main. this news hour but my colleague richelle carey will be here in just a few minutes with more of the day's news you can also keep up with all the latest stories on our web site that's al-jazeera dot com. slide castle a ways and experience the world like never before. it's going places toget

oh boy larry i don't know any better that you do or bill or even the rest of washington lindsey graham the senator from south carolina has said that he thinks the sides are dug in he's trying to bring together a bipartisan group to fund the government for three weeks on the promise that there will be discussion about funding the border wall and finding some sort of compromise but it seems like both sides think that they're winning this thing i don't think that they are i don't see how this ends other than through compromise which has even been suggested by the washington post editorial page five point seven billion dollars for the border wall which by the way we already have seven hundred miles of so this whole argument that it's immoral is just silly and belies the fact that democrats have voted for border barriers in the past in return for some pats legalization for minors who were brought to the united states illegally by the their parents through no fault of their own i think that deal seems reasonable i think there are a lot of people who want it but you need to get democratic lea